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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...

An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts

...term suggested by folklorist Michael Owen Jones, who contributed the foreword to this book). Laurel Horton weaves the story of the family's lives, using information gleaned from oral interviews with...

I-26, Corridor of Change

...about affecting social change. Using pictures as a tool for social change was my earliest motivation in photography, although my illusions about affecting change in anyone have evolved over the...

Three AM and the Stars Were Out

When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out   When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House

...House Museum.1Miriam Denard, phone interview with author, January 15th, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author Donnie sings in the courtyard, Atlanta, Georgia, July 12, 2015. Photograph by Clint Fluker. Courtesy of...

Frank Willis

...friend Jennifer said so, never went to the Jefferson Memorial, climbed the stone rhino at the Smithsonian, cursed tourists, took exquisite phone messages for my father, a race man, who...